Re: How portable is the Jhbuild of Gnome-shell?

[Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com>]

On 01/11/2011 02:34 PM, Cyril Arnaud wrote:
> To avoid any problem it's advisable to install gnome-shell under /opt
> I build gnome shell on one computer and I rsync /opt/gnome-shell to my
> other computers (that have the same architecture). It works perfectly.
>
> -Cyril
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:52 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 janvier 2011à  10:45 +0100, Onyeibo Oku aécrit :
> > >  I'm thinking of trying Gnome-shell on a different system from the one
> > >  that built it.  Is this possible?  Which files do I need to copy?
> > You can simply copy ~/gnome-shell/install/, but the two systems must
> > use:
> > - the same distribution and release (well, could work without, but...)
> > - the same CPU architecture (most likely 32 vs. 64 bits)
> >
> > But you can just try and see what happens, it won't burn your computer!

All systems here run 64bits.  Some have real dual cores (Core 2 Duos), 
some fake dual cores (Pentium-Ds), some Quads ... but all Fedora boxes 
here are 64bits. When you say "install gnome-shell under /opt" what do 
you mean by "install"?   You mean "# cp ~/gnome-shell /opt/"?